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January 2018

01/19/2018

Which of your employees do you dread to see every day... the person you wish would quit, the one you can't fire but wish was never hired?

Take that person out to lunch.

Seriously, continuing to avoid that person isn't getting you anywhere. It's just entrenching your avoidance behavior ad nauseum. Resubscribing to dread every single day robs you of your joy, gives others power over you, and impacts how you feel about yourself as a manager. The only way to break the pattern of repetitive dread is to break your habit of avoiding the source of the dread.

Get to know the person. Shatter the negative perception you've been nurturing all this time by giving him/her a chance to show you a side you don't know about. The human side, the personal side. If you don't know a person, you don't know what it takes to make them change.

Mere managers avoid difficult interactions. They wake up each morning and say "give us this day our daily dread."